A kind and compassionate act is often it's own reward.
--William John Bennett

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Be who you are and say what you think because the people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind.

Critique is like medicine, you gotta take it to get better.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) British writer

Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And, years later tell how they stood for hours in the cold rain just to catch a glimpse of the one who taught them to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us who keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.

Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best!

Great Spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

I'm so far behind that I think I'm ahead!

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower.
To always follow the sun, Turn my back to darkness,
Stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds.

if it takes great courage to stand and fight for something... sometimes it takes even greater courage to just walk away and leave things behind...

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

it's not always right to stay in pain when you know you already had too much...and it isn't always wrong to be happy when you know it's about time that you deserve to be

Marriage consists of learning how to handle living with the person that you absolutely cannot handle living without.

Show me a someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Those who volunteer don't get paid because they are worthless, it's because they're priceless.

to walk is what always do,,,but i prefer not to look back to people who's no longer walking with me,,, then someone ask me.why did you just let other leave you?
then i answered,,,
life is a long journey let see who will be walking with me until the end of my story....

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

What I see is just a glimpse of the man you'll be

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”